Singapore PM among 1.5 million people affected by massive cyber attack

Singapore - Patient data of 1.5 million people in Singapore, including the country's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, have been stolen in a breach that the government has termed "serious, unprecedented [and] massive."

Investigations by the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) found that victims' name, national identification number, address, gender, race and date of birth had been stolen between May 1, 2015, and July 4, 2018, the health and communications ministries said Friday.

In addition, information on medicines that had been dispensed to 160,000 of the 1.5 million affected patients had also been stolen, including information about medication prescribed to the prime minister.